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| Keywords: Structure of an Army Heavy Corps.gif Figure A-4 Structure of an Army Heavy Corps The corps commanded by a lieutenant general is the Army's largest tactical formation A corps commands and supports two to five divisions and an armored cavalry regiment Slight variations exist between a heavy corps such as III Corps and a light corps such as XVIII Airborne Corps but those differences are generally minor and all corps are capable of including heavy or light subordinate divisions The largest single element of the corps structure other than the subordinate divisions is the corps support command which includes a corps support group CSG for the corps itself one CSG for each subordinate division and a medical brigade CSGs are multifunction logistics commands with a variety of subordinate logistics battalions Most of the rest of the corps's structure consists of combat-support brigades and groups each with a variable number of subordinate battalions depending on the number of subordinate divisions assigned to the corps and on operational factors The combat-support brigades include engineer chemical military police military intelligence signals personnel finance and civil affairs brigades The corps includes the bulk of the Army's artillery firepower with a corps artillery commanding a variable number of artillery brigades Each corps has an artillery brigade for the corps itself and one or two artillery brigades for each subordinate division In addition a corps contains an aviation brigade an air-defense brigade and a psychological operations battalion which are unlikely to vary in size According to Army doctrine separate brigades are normally attached to a corps However in recent rotations for Operation Iraqi Freedom the Army has opted to attach separate brigades to divisions Note CA civil affairs; COSCOM corps support command; CSG corps support group; FIN finance; HHC headquarters and headquarters company; MI military intelligence; MP military police; PER personnel; PSYOPS psychological operations; SHORAD short-range air defense Other symbols are defined in Figures A-1 and A-2 http //www cbo gov/ftpdoc cfm index 6348 type 0 sequence 4 Congressional Budget Office Options for Restructuring the Army Section 5 of 8 2005-05 Congressional Budget Office PD-USGov military related Military diagrams | ||||
